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This is a serious question worth a serious discussion. Meanwhile, perhaps there should be a moratorium in the CRIMSON on the lopsided contest of quoting half-sentences from purloined documents to a largely mystified readership. Or if we must look forward to a continuation of that game, perhaps there should be a levelling up of the odds. With a drawerful of innocent CRIMSON correspondence, randomly selected, and an allotment of space equal to your reporters, I feel sure I could string together a group of quotations that would make the CRIMSON operation appear like one of life's darker conspiracies...
...Reagan's staff, White House Adviser Robert Finch, and from Nixon's director of communications, Herb Klein. Kemp, 35, who campaigned for Barry Goldwater in 1964, pointed his campaign to the right of center, wiring the President his support of the Cambodian invasion and calling for a moratorium on criticism of the Administration's war policies...
...Moratorium was a good thing. Besides its more obvious accomplishments, it kept us away from Providence November 15, the day of the Brown game. Some of us have come to know what the Brown game means-and doesn't mean-by watching some of these contests in the two-thirds empty Stadium. Others have not. But had it not been for the trip to Washington, even some of us who were aware of the game's tradition might have gone to that contest just for the sake of making a trip to Providence. There you can see the Peter...
...generation-sleeping-in with the Indians at Alcatraz, demonstrating against the ABM. But just as she has nagging doubts about her acting, she is not sure she is going about her reformist duties in quite the right way. During the shooting of Soldier Blue she organized a Moratorium Day demonstration in Mexico. She recalls comically: "We met in a drugstore, hatching plans over sundaes. Oh, we were heavy radicals all right...
Organization such as the Vietnam Moratorium Committee and the Young People's Socialist League are involved in explicitly political action, but do not get any free office space or telephones from the University. Peace Action pays Phillips Brooks House $30 a month for the use of an office. But all these organizations-and others such as SDS and the November Action Committee-use University lecture halls for meetings. It is sensitive issues such as these the University will have to settle to assure its tax exemption against any IRS crackdown...